Word: sexus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming from the old pornographer who has been monotonously celebrating himself for years in such tomes as Sexus, Nexus and Plexus, the report was an astonishing relief. "I've written everything I want to say," announced Henry Miller, 74-at long last. From now on, said Miller as he opened a show of his fanciful watercolor paintings in Los Angeles' Westwood Art Association gallery, he will chase down his muse primarily with brushes. "It seems to me that the battle for freedom on the sex problem has been won," he proclaimed. Then, in a meditation that many wish...
Meanwhile, in New Bedford, the Massachusetts courts began their suppression of yet another book. A bookseller was fined $1000 and sent to jail for a year for selling Henry Miller's Sexus...
...series, Gide's Journals and all of C. P. Snow are apt to stir poolside suspicion. Anyone who takes his summer reading seriously must weather such risks-or else tuck his Doctor Zhivago inside Doctor No. The lowbrow in search of status will reverse the process and hide Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury The Speculative Significance of the Inner Action of the Market under Sam Snead...
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...title of TIME'S review of Henry Miller's Sexus ("The High Price of Zap"-June 25) suggests a possible rebuttal that might be called "The High Price of Pap." Henry Miller is one of the few people in our society who spend their lives trying to salvage living souls from the whirring junkheap of robothood. His books glitter with the joy of life, and they are capable of leading any halfway open-minded citizen to a point where he can deal with evil...